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AmandaWindleBackchannels Addition to this question:
A SLOW CONVERSATION ON COVID-19 BY MASCHA GUGGANIG AND NINA KLIMBURG-WITJES.
04 May, 2020
See: https://www.4sonline.org/blog/post/a_slow_conversation_on_covid_
Backchannels Addition to this question:
A SLOW CONVERSATION ON COVID-19 BY MASCHA GUGGANIG AND NINA KLIMBURG-WITJES.
04 May, 2020
See: https://www.4sonline.org/blog/post/a_slow_conversation_on_covid_
After reading the essays attached to this question, I was left overwhelmed. I had to walk away before finishing them as it was just way too much... Returning to any sense of a “normal” state of affairs is undesirable. And, to remain in the present, I would convey that there is a greater need for mentorship and encouragement of independent thinking/doing.
There are further challenges more specifically related to appropriate ways of guiding and enabling kinaesthetic learning. Those teaching practical subjects usually taught out of a studio will face tactile challenges and many more.
In relation to the online educational spaces, it's really hard to read the micro-expressions of either solidarity or dissent in online interactions. It’s more than just exploring the literacy of online asynchronous online pedagogy, it’s about understanding the limitations of the tools, be that Zoom or Skype or another tool like Slack, Micro, Trello, etc.